Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Now that I am sixty I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from...
Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself like a woman who...
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf...
The essential support and encouragement comes from within arising out of the...
Americans have been conditioned to respect newness whatever it costs them.
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of...
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own...
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing though chilled...
The first breath of adultery is the freest after it constraints aping...
He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to...
Poetry asks people to have values form opinions care about some other part...
For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly...
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good...
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently link by link with sweat and...
I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.